Maine Memory Network

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… with one another, allowing passengers to travel greater distances. People could live in the smaller towns outside of Portland, yet be able to work…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"… ceremonies and traditional dance" and he created traveling museum displays of tribal customs, dress, and culture. Tourists were fascinated."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"… advertisement, 1880s X Wabanakis who traveled to Mount Desert Island were entrepreneurial when it came to marketing."

Historic Hallowell - Historic Hallowell Resources and Links

"Travel back in time with John Hayward and see what early America was like. Hayward's New England Gazetteer of 1839 Hallowell, Maine…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Elizabeth Akers Allen, née Chase

"The success of her first book allowed her to travel in Europe in 1859–60. While in Europe she served as a correspondent for the Portland Transcript…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Shipyards

"Although travel on the Penobscot River remained important to Hampden, an alternative means of transportation became available in 1897."

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"… usually available in town without the need to travel to Bangor. It was not until after the war, and most especially during the 1960s and 1970s…"

Maine Aviation Historical Society & Maine Air Museum

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Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"… some of them discovered Surry during their travels and several of them purchased summer cottages or retirement homes along the ponds and bay."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Stores

"Travel around the island was by foot, carriage, or animal so it was convenient to have these supplies nearby."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"… point in Swan's Island history, people rarely traveled outside of their own communities. A resident of Atlantic would rely on Atlantic stores, the…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1920-1930 - Page 3 of 3

"… and heavy tussah three quarter length belted coat travel outfit; and a long, collared, short sleeved, tube-shaped dress entirely covered with red…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 2 of 4

"For the inhabitants of Harpswell, this meant travelling to worship each week by boat! Understandably, they were the first town to secede from North…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"With the profits from that book, she traveled to Europe in 1859–1860. During that journey she served as a correspondent for the Transcript and for…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid

"Trask, in 1858, while traveling by a coach that cornered too sharply, Leonard and his traveling companions were thrown about very roughly."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… settled in Farmington, because about 1791 he traveled here with his family, along with John Church."

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"These traveling teams had names as colorful as the players themselves; like the House of David team with all the players sporting long dark beards…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… along this coast in 1604, naming islands as he traveled. Champlain’s early map gives this island the name “Brule-Cote,” meaning “Burnt-hill” in his…"

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Maine Railroads

"It also had its own train station. You could travel from New Sweden to Woodland to Caribou to Presque Isle and return."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Richards, a young architect from Gardiner, Maine, traveled by steamer to Bar Harbor to supervise the construction of a summer home for Mrs."

Historic Hallowell - Martha Ballard

"… of what Ulrich describes as "social medicine," traveled in all kinds of weather, including storms and floods."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"The exploring party continued traveling north about a mile further up the river. Here they stopped and stripped some basswood bark to make a chain…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church

"… met their religious needs in their homes with traveling ministers. Upon the town's incorporation in 1794, residents could not agree upon one…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"It was easier to travel by boat and it made sense to live near the water and so many of the early pioneers who needed to get supplies and get around…"